"Google" by Hugh MacLeod
This cartoon arrived in my inbox this morning courtesy of Hugh MacLeod. I thought it was quite appropriate.
If you’re spending your life trying to create the next Google, or the next Twitter, or the next Keller Williams– STOP.
Google didn’t get to where it is by trying to be the next Microsoft.
Twitter didn’t get where it is by trying to be the next AOL IM.
Keller Williams didn’t get where it is by trying to be the next RE/Max.
They all paved their own path. They all achieved success not by being the next big thing, but by being themselves, first and foremost.
There is a lesson in that for all of us. Don’t chase success by trying to be like something or someone else, make your own path. Be yourself.
Achieving success by being yourself is much more rewarding, and a heck of a lot more fun, too.
